GA: Yes I do, I have always defended the re-opening 6,
actually it's something the McCann couple never defended, only
recently, after two or three years, they've started to defend a review
of the sightings - and that is what is being done. The re-opening of the
process in Portugal, with all the indicia that are contained in the
process, it was never defended by them. Note that when the process was
archived in 2008, there were three suspects: Robert Murat and the McCann
couple. Any of the three could have opposed to the process archival,
some received 500.000 pounds of compensation from the British media
whilst others kept quiet. Why? Because it wasn't their interest for the
investigation to carry on, but the investigation needs to go on.

JS: You are talking about the child's parents?

GA: I am talking about all of them, of all those that were considered suspects.

JS: Do you maintain that...?

GA: The investigation needs to go on. If someone stopped, someone as an
arguido, as a suspect, for example in the case of Robert Murat, if he
believes, due to his own personal motives, that he doesn't have to
advance with a request asking the re-opening of the investigation - he
received a compensation from the English newspapers - that's fine.

JS: You maintain the belief that this child is not alive?

GA: I have one opinion. Just like that gentleman [Andy Redwood] has one
opinion, "I have one opinion", he said, "that she is alive", I have the
opinion that she is dead. I have the right to have my own opinion. I and
other police officers, I and other [forensic] technicians, and my
opinion is an opinion based on facts, unlike his who I don't know if it
is based on evidence, or if it is based on pseudo-sightings, or where it
is based exactly. I wrote a book where I underlie my firm belief and
the facts that support my opinion, that gentleman said "we've looked at
this [the process], and it's like this"... but he doesn't explain the
reasons.

JS: And do you also maintain the belief of the parents responsibility in the cadaver's disappearance?

GA: Notice one thing, a criminal investigation has its own dynamics, we
begin at a point and we bring it to an end. By September 2007 we had
reached certain conclusions, and it would have been necessary to
validate those conclusions, to advance or not in that path, we had to
carry on with the investigation. That is a criminal investigation. Then
someone says "you have to stop the investigation" and no progress was
made since. What is left is what was made known in the process and in my
book [Maddie, The Truth of the Lie]. And was expressed in the book
because we were accused of several things, I was accused of several
things, and that book came out in my defence. By the way, let me tell
you that the book copies were formally returned today, finally after
several years [7.500 book copies were seized after a McCann couple
injunction].

JS: And it's going to be placed again in the bookshops.

GA: I believe so, yes. People have the right to read the book...

JS: Gonçalo Amaral, what are...?

GA: Now, those were conclusions arrived at a determined moment of the
investigation, they are not final conclusions. They are interim, and
people have to understand that.

JS: What should be the Oporto's Judiciary Police team line of investigation if the process is re-opened?

GA: Oporto's team has no chance of investigating the process, the events
took place in the Algarve, as much as they wish, as much competence
they have, they can't - they're too far away from it [as to time, crime
scene/terrain and circumstances]. It's logical that it is important for
someone to be distanced, in terms of location and time, but they don't
stand any chances, they really don't, because it all took place in
Algarve. Either the investigation is made by the Algarve or between the
Lisbon and Algarve Judiciary Police, or is investigated in England as it
should be. In fact, the English police, Scotland Yard have the money to
support the costs, they can spend an extra few million pounds and
investigate what happened to a British subject, that is, Madeleine
McCann, of English nationality.

JS: Gonçalo, explain me one issue. In your point of view, what are the
reasons that led the National Judiciary Police Directorate to send to
Oporto the Maddie McCann case?

GA: The reasons? They were justified by Dr. Pedro do Carmo, because of
the distance, because of the geographical distance, the distance in
terms of people, but in terms of competence...

JS: And what do those reasons tell you?

GA: In Lisbon, for example the former DCCB7, the
current National Unit Against Terrorism have much more experienced
people - I'm not talking about competence - but much more experienced
people in the area of abductions, kidnappings, disappearances and so on,
than Oporto has. Oporto only has...

JS: So, you don't understand that decision?

GA: My colleague, that I know very well, Dr. Helena Monteiro, has a big
case, the case of the young woman from Lamego, that disappeared there
and later appeared close to the motorway connection to Régua8,
it's an important case but the young woman was dead, she had been there
for a month, and they could have located her with a GPS, but well...To
state that they have a great experience [in missing people cases] it
doesn't make much sense.

JS: But are you saying that your colleagues from Oporto....

GA: They are very competent, have no doubts about that. They are police
officers, they are competent, they are criminal investigators, they are
competent.

JS: But you don't believe that they can solve this case?

GA: Too many pages. Too much indicia, too many things that need to be read, and sometimes it's difficult to read 9.

JS: Gonçalo Amaral, what happened to your team? To the persons who worked with you during the investigation to this case?

GA: They are being persecuted, case by case, they are being persecuted. The last case was with my colleague, Ricardo Paiva 10,
who was a target of an entrapment, an entrapment at facebook [social
site], and Dr. Pedro do Carmo immediately stated that he had violated a
number of duties, etc. It's interesting because Pedro do Carmo....

JS: One question...

GA: Allow me to conclude, in terms of disciplinary processes Dr. Pedro
do Carmo was the person who had to make a decision, and immediately
before any investigation is made to that incident, he stated that
Ricardo Paiva had violated the secrecy of, a series of duties, and we
have to ask, why does this happen? Why does someone, a deputy director
of the Judiciary Police, comes to the public, on his tiptoes11,
speaking against him [a colleague]? It's because they are witnesses.
Ricardo Paiva is one of my witnesses in the process the McCann couple
have against me, and why do these directors, these people who are now
directors - at this moment they are representing the Judiciary Police,
but they are not the Judiciary Police - the Judiciary Police has a
history, beyond these directors...

JS: Let me go back to the point that you just made, what you are saying
is that your colleagues that remain active, in the Judiciary Police, are
being persecuted?

GA: There are no doubts about that.

JS: Inside the Judiciary Police?

GA: Inside the Judiciary Police.

JS: They are suffering retaliations?

GA: They are suffering retaliations, simply because they worked with me.
I can't go to the police, I can't contact anyone because immediate
retaliations follow. That has happened before. Therefore I limit myself
to the life in my neighbourhood, it's a pretty neighbourhood, very close
to the EXPO, where I lived for forty years, and now I'm back again.

JS: Did this case ruined you?

GA: It didn't ruin me per se, I live through this moment of
crisis like all of us are. I am surviving, and will continue to do so. I
will go on with calm and serenity.

JS: Gonçalo Amaral, thank you so much for coming here tonight to 'News at 8'.

Donnerstag, 26. April 2012

In an interview to TVI, Gonçalo Amaral defends the reopening of the process, but without limits

Gonçalo
Amaral defended that the investigation process into the disappearance
should be reopened, yet adds that the English police wants the
reopening, but with the imposition of limiting the investigation to the
abduction theory.

"They speak about sightings, about visions by
mediums. A lot of things have been produced over the years and well
produced and therefore the English police has to pass the ball to the
Portuguese police and we are left with the onus and the expense of
investigating. It is important to reopen the process, nobody should
doubt that, but to reopen the process without limitations, the way they
want to limit us", the former Judiciary Police inspector explained.

"They want to impose an abduction", he stated in an interview to TVI.

Gonçalo
Amaral further said that the fault of not knowing what happened to
Maddie yet is ours. "It's been five years and we still do not know what
happened to this child and it is our fault. The fault of our justice
system, of our Attorney General who allowed this investigation to be
shelved", he said, justifying the fact because we are "Portuguese and
they are English, we are small and they are big. That is waht is
happening."

"The investigation was never allowed to arrive at an
end", he stressed, admitting that he has no doubt that there was
political pressure.

Concerning what happened to the English girl, Gonçalo Amaral stated that he has his opinion. "In my opinion, she is dead."

Lastly,
the former inspector further accused the Judiciary police of internally
persecuting his colleagues that remain by his side.

Mittwoch, 25. April 2012

Dismissing conspiracy theories about
Madeleine's parents' involvement, Redwood said he believed the girl's
disappearance was the result of "a criminal act by a stranger".

Evidence? Huh? We carried out boxes of evidence. In Barcelona. This evidence dilutes the so called PJ Files. Diminishes them to a mere percentage.Nobody will be able to claim anything based on the PJ Files, because SY has ALL the evidence.I am afraid, the British will have to live with it. Long live Rupert...

Samstag, 21. April 2012

"Wednesday, 2 May 2007. Our last completely happy day. Our last, to date, as a family of five. If only it was possible to rewind. Even for an hour."

I know she added "completely" to the sentence but wouldn't the third be the day she last remembered together with Madeleine and would it not be the third she hoped to rewind?

"Fiona and Dave had been windsurfing that morning and had seen Madeleine’s group, who had gone down to the beach for their ‘mini-sail’ activity.We heard later that they’d been on a speedboat as well as a dinghy. Fiona told me she’d spotted Ella there but not Madeleine."

The only independent witness for Madeleine being alive on the Thursday is now getting dropped right in. Did Cat Baker get questioned again regarding the sailing trip? Jane stated clearly and explicitly in her rogatory that Fiona had seen Madeleine AND Ella on the boat and had told her so and that she herself had seen them both. Another indication for my theory that she died on Wednesday 2nd?

""Reply "Yeah, I think we met Dave and Fi coming back and they said they'd seen Madeleine and Exxxx on a boat, because they'd taken the kids sailing that morning, so they said 'Oh we've seen Madeleine and Exxxx on a boat down there'. So then we went down to the beach, and Russell took out a kayak and I sat and just played on the beach with Exx at that point. And we saw they'd come off the boat and we saw Exxxx and Madeleine and the rest of the group, they were just, they'd just come off the boat and they were getting ready to walk back up to the Kids Club, so".""

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Antonella Mozzarella in the Sun from 14th is allegedly quoting Goncalo Amaral as saying:

"Tourists like her are not needed, mothers neglecting their children, that loses a child on holiday after dinner when she was drinking in a bar until midnight."

This clearly indicates the Wednesday and not the Thursday. Direct quote? Misquote? Mistake? Hint?

Freitag, 13. April 2012

"" She went there to meet them. When she came close to the elements of the GNR she found that behind her was Gerry, Madeleine's father, accompanied by another man whose identity she doesn't remember. Then Gerry kneeled down, hit the floor with both hands, positioning himself as if he were a praying Arab, and screamed twice of anger, what he said being impossible to understand. Then Gerry stand up and accompanied her (the witness) and the other man in the car of the GNR to the apartment A5.""

Samstag, 7. April 2012

Low tide on the night of the 3rd May 2007
was at 2200 hrs at 2m. The maximum amount of beach would be accessible
including the rocky outcrop.
High tide on the 4th May 2007 was at 0415hrs at 3.1 m.

While 22:00 is a perfect time to reach the Rocha Negra via the beach on foot - and there is only a tiny window of opportunity - , the same could only be achieved from the plateau overlooking Praia da Luz at 6:00 in the morning when George Brooks saw a couple carrying a child on the road between Lagos and Praia da Luz in an area with access to sideroads leading to that plateau.

Tidal charts are usually accessible at all sports centers that cater for sailing and surfing.

On a side note...

What were David Payne (phone pings between 12:35 - 16:43), Rachael Mampilly (12:24 - 16:09), Russell O'Brien (14:23 - 16:17) and most possibly Fiona Payne (no phone) doing close to the Lagos/Santa Maria phone masts on May 10th, while Jane Tanner, Matt Oldfield and the McCanns were at the Portimao Police station? A mast that also covers the area of the Boavista Golf Club and the adjoining Rocha Negra.